Anna Kendrick On That One Time Chris Pine Almost Killed Her

With the release of Into the Woods just a week away, Anna Kendrick is sparing no detail about her time as Cinderella, and that includes the role's real dangers. During her appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night, the actress told the host about the time her costume nearly killed her, thanks in part to her (super hot) costar Chris Pine.

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Wearing a corset is "like being temporarily asthmatic," Kendrick said. "The simplest things become significantly more difficult. And there was a day—do you know that thing when you're a little kid and someone's tickling you and it's really fun and suddenly you're screaming for mercy? There was a day that Chris Pine—and Chris Pine is so funny in this movie—and he was making me laugh on set, and it was going well, and I was thinking, 'Oh look at this! It's like behind the scenes, and the actors are having fun, getting to know each other! Oh, that Chris Pine!' and suddenly I was screaming that I was dying! And I was like clawing at the corset to get out of it."

"And they let you out and it takes a minute and then I was disheveled but not dying, and apparently saying 'Oh, Chris was doing this really funny Southern accent' is not, like, an acceptable excuse for holding up the shoot."

And that wasn't the only strange behavior she exhibited on set. Watch Kendrick discuss how her warm-up vocal exercises led the crew to think she was "really bad at being passive-aggressive." She also ruins fairy tales for Jon Stewart's daughter, and his reaction is a must-see.